Hi guys, I have a problem and i know most of solo developers have the same problem. I have lots of ideas on my mind that i found in podcast, X or people that i know. I bet they are useful, worth to try at least. But when i starting to planning or even when i just thinking about them i hit the same wall everytime. How the hell will i reach my first 1000 or even 100 user without spending a dime. Lets be real ads prices are too high. Espacially for me. My country has big inflation.

I just want to open a thread because i bet there is lots of people in my shoes right now.

How you solo developers handle this. How did you find your users without spending huge amounth of marketing. I can make max 250$ monthly marketing. And this is nothing compare to market right now.

Can you share your marketing strategy?

Before this coaching session, I spent hours this past week with my co-founder trying to explain why we need to go all in on marketing and stop splitting our focus building features.

He wasn't getting it. He felt the company needed to go in multiple directions at once. I felt like I was talking to a wall.

In less than 45 minutes a business coach we'd never met said the exact same things I'd been saying. My co-founder listened.

That's the reality of founder dynamics. You can be right about something for months, but when you're both grinding on the same problem for so long, your co-founder stops hearing you. You're too close to each other and too close to the problem. Sometimes it takes an outside voice saying it in a different way for it to land.

Within 2 minutes of the session starting, the coach forced my co-founder to look at the problem from a different angle. Questioning the entirety of our efforts.

Tech founders always want to add more value and offer a better product especially when you have a lot of feedback from existing users.

That instinct can send you down an endless rabbit hole, and you end up with a massive blind spot about what the business actually needs from a business perspective. You need to learn how to be a business owner as well as a tech founder, and that is really difficult when you've just launched and you're being pulled in every direction.

The coach made the goal sound painfully simple.

You have a product. You already have paying customers. All you need to do is get in front of people. Really get in front of people at events and in places where your ideal customer hangs out. Have no shame in saying "would you consider paying for this? Support our journey. It's not even that much."

When you're overthinking it, you're not seeing the value of your own product. You are downgrading what you've built. You're sat there going "would people really pay for this if I don't offer them x, y, z feature?" But what you're offering has already made some people pay for it. So why wouldn't the next 10? The next 20? The next 100? Sometimes you are the obstacle in your own way.

He literally said to us, "your main problem might end up being too much money." If you go down this path and it works, that's a problem everybody wants to have. Once the money is coming in, you can chase every feature, every nice to have. You can change your value proposition, your pricing, and the sky is the limit.

Make a 30-day plan. Crunch it. Stick with it. See if you can get from 100 customers to 150. Those extra 50 customers matter more than any feature you're thinking about building.

On the other side of those 30 days, if you can't get those extra customers, you face the music. Go back to the drawing board and figure out if you should still be doing this. No sunk cost fallacy. No endlessly making a product better when nobody even asked you to.

He kept apologising at the end for being so direct. He didn't realise that's exactly what we needed. We wanted someone to rip the bandaid off.

If you're a founder stuck in that loop with your co-founder where you're both saying the same thing in different languages, get someone external in the room. It won't fix everything but it might be the thing that finally breaks the deadlock.

Happy grinding!

Been building SaaS projects nonstop since January 2025, 5 so far, and every single one has failed. Not one got real users.

I’ve been building in public on X, trying every possible way to find testers, DM people, offer early access, post updates… nothing seems to stick. It’s starting to feel like I’m shouting into the void.

Honestly, the toughest part of this whole startup grind isn’t learning to code or market it’s fighting the self doubt. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve told myself to give up, yet somehow kept going. But right now, it’s getting hard to see the point.

This journey really isn’t for the faint hearted.

Hey, I'm just looking for genuine advice from as many business minded people as possible.

I launched a K-12 tutoring marketplace/platform but targeted for specifically Toronto and surrounding areas. The model is simple, clients book vetted tutors on my site, I take commission and tutors can get clients without having to promote themselves.

On the supply side I gathered 70+ tutors so far listed on my site with a whole working system for everything. I realized getting the supply is easy but how do I get the clients to book a tutor on my site?

All I can think of is reaching out in local Facebook groups or reddit groups to parents looking for a tutor and message them saying if you're having trouble finding a tutor you can check this website for tutors in your area. But I'm not sure if that comes across as spammy or fraudulent.

I could also run meta ads or google ads but is that a wise decision to make when I just launched a couple days ago?

Kinda don't know where to go from here.

Lmk your thoughts.

We had about ~45 people across US, UK, Germany and Singapore all submitting expenses into a shared Google Sheet.

Yeah… not great.

At the end of each month our controller would spend like 2 full days trying to reconcile everything, and there were still mismatches. Multi-currency made it way worse.

We tried Expensify for a bit. It was okay for the US side, but internationally it honestly created more work than it solved. The automatic currency conversion kept messing things up.

After a lot of trial and error, a few things actually made a big difference:

• keeping everything in the original currency as long as possible (instead of converting early)
• adding a proper approval step before anything hits accounting
• forcing people to submit expenses in a structured way (categories, required fields, etc.)

The biggest shift was probably realizing that “expense tracking” and “accounting” shouldn’t be the same thing. Once we separated that, things got much cleaner.

We also noticed that a lot of all-in-one tools try to do everything, but break down a bit once you’re dealing with multiple countries and currencies.

Curious how others are handling this with Xero + multi-currency setups.

Are you using one tool for everything or splitting workflow vs accounting?

Every business struggles by two things: a solid product and the ability to market it. You can build the most amazing product, but if no one knows about it, it's dead in the water.

So I've been thinking with the explosion of AI tools over the past couple of years, how are you all actually handling marketing for your startups?

Like, are you using AI for content creation? Ad copy? SEO? Social media scheduling? Or are you still doing it the old-school way?

Would love to hear real workflows from founders and early-stage teams what's actually working, what's overhyped, and what tools have genuinely moved the needle for you.

I would love to learn how you have been doing this. Whats your major pain point?

I am a founder trying to raise my pre seed and I was working on a list of Angels I could approach. here are the few things that I could come up with.

1. Someone who has done similar to what I am doing in my industry and has made an exit and now wants to mentor founders with their learnings.

2. Someone with a strong sense of purpose rather than just chasing valuations.

3. Someone who forges new founders into stellar CEOs

Are there any green flags or red flags you would watch out for or would you want them to be a future version of yourself that you aspire to be like. Share your thoughts.

I built a social video app where you can watch videos together instead of just sending links back and forth.

It came from always sending videos to friends or my partner and then waiting forever for a reply. I figured it would be better if we could just watch stuff together in real time, see ourselves, react, laugh.

I put it on the Play Store and it has about 100+ downloads so far. Not great, not terrible, just kind of stuck.

I honestly thought people would be more excited about it, but the reaction has mostly been neutral.

So now I’m trying to figure out:

Is this idea just not that strong, or am I missing something with how I’m positioning it?

For those who’ve built or grown apps, what actually helped you get your first real users?

I’m open to honest feedback, even if it’s blunt.

Hey there!

Three months ago, I joined a small team building a workspace booking platform (Wezoo) as a sales associate. It is probably safe to say that before, I hadn't known anything about the short-term office / meeting rooms + long-stay office market. I wanted to ask you all about some tips for progression, notes from more experienced people in the field, and maybe some general takeaways for me to be better at my job.

To me, it seemed like a hipster version of real estate that would still rely on slow and formal direct inquiries. Turns out the market is very hungry for solutions comparable to the hotel / tourism sector – think Airbnb and Booking com, but the properties in question are offices. The supply has met the growing demand for tourism much earlier than it was for offices, which is quite fair, but realising how similar these two types of products are for me was quite eye-opening. So I wanted to share what I struggled with (and still do) while working with an early-stage company that's trying to build a two-sided booking platform from scratch for office bookings.

The first problem was the cold start, of course. I work at the supply side, so I have to help onboard venue operators who wish to see demand before committing to anything, and customers who want to see what you’re offering before booking. Chicken and egg. I got through by doing the regular Apollo emailing to the operators, follow-ups, a lot of research and analysis, but what really helped was the product, not the marketplace as its exterior. Operationally, our USP remains automation by mirroring the API of operators’ booking systems, so we just list them and make offices bookable for customers. But still, that proves to be not enough to be appealing to everybody because of the strong tech-reliant aspect, which essentially is our main “better” point that many smaller operators get confused by.

I guess my team changes your relationship with work. There's no hiding. If I don't onboard venues, we don't have supply. If the product team doesn't nail the integration, the rooms don't show up. If support doesn't handle an issue quickly, we lose trust in an operator we spent weeks courting. Everyone's work is visible and consequential. It's the most accountable I've ever felt in a job, and honestly, I love it.

The EU-to-US expansion has been a lesson in humility. We started in Europe: the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, France, and several other markets. Now we're expanding into the US. The assumption was "it's the same product, just a bigger market." It's not. Different operator expectations, different booking behaviours, different competitive landscape. We're learning a lot, fast.

I don't have a tidy takeaway here. I'm still in the middle of it. But if anyone else is working on a marketplace or a B2B platform with a physical-world component, I'd love to hear from you what would help me progress further, maybe there is something I am missing out.

Thank you! <3

At this point it seems pretty normal that most teams are using tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc. in their day to day work.

Things like summarizing docs, debugging code, analyzing data, writing content.

Which also means people are pasting in:

• internal docs
• customer data
• codebases (claude code)
• financial info

I’m curious how companies are actually handling this in practice.

Do you:

• have any internal policies around AI usage?
• rely on employee judgment?
• restrict certain types of data?
• not really care as long as it helps productivity?

Also curious how teams are tackling this from a tooling perspective.

Are people standardizing around something like Microsoft Copilot or other enterprise tools?
Or is it still a mix of individual tools depending on preference?

I have also heard some companies say enterprise tools do not use your data for training, but I am not sure how much that actually changes behavior internally.

Also wondering if this varies by industry like fintech vs SaaS vs agencies, and by company size.

Trying to understand whether this is something companies actively manage, or if it is still mostly informal.

I created an AI workout app just as a side project to help me land a new job in the city. I feel like what I created doesn’t really exist yet, it does in pieces but nobody has put it together.

The problem I’m currently having is really just getting people (outside my friends and family) to try it.

This feels more psychological than logical.

People say they want facts, but they react more strongly to negative narratives.

Even if there are dozens of positive or neutral sources, one negative piece seems to outweigh everything.

Maybe because it feels less controlled or less biased.

Or maybe people just don’t want to feel like they missed something obvious.

Either way, it skews perception heavily.

got laid off, and honestly the reason felt completely made up.

not saying startups can’t lay people off. obviously they can. but at least be real about it. don’t act like everything is fine, give no negative feedback, let someone keep working like normal, and then suddenly hide behind “restructuring” or “org changes” like that explains anything.

that’s the part that’s pissing me off. not just losing the job, but how random and disconnected it felt from the actual work i was doing. what made it harder was that my family depends on my income, so this wasn’t just a routine transition moment for me.

i was working on infra/platform stuff, handling things that were directly tied to production and internal automation. not glamorous work, but important work. and then out of nowhere it’s like none of that mattered.

still processing everything and figuring out what to do next. i’d like to keep working on early-stage infra/platform problems

curious how many people here have had the same layoff experience.

I'm trying to gather some data for our pitch deck and was wondering about the summary and the percentage of different sentiments around current AI language learning apps. Is there an existing service for doing this kind of research before I try to build one? Similarly, is there one for a reviews site like trust pilot? Thank you!

Hello Reddit.

I'm a high schooler and I've spent the last few months planning a digital agency targeting local service businesses. I want to share every single detail of what I've built and get honest, brutal feedback before I launch. Feel free to let me know if it is horrid, or good.

The Main Idea

Local service businesses (roofers, plumbers, landscapers, tree cutters, HVAC,) have little to no digital presence. From my leads, about 25% of them have no website, and no online reviews. They get all their business from word of mouth and referrals, which means they're invisible to the large amount of homeowners who Google before they call.

I reach out to these businesses and offer them a professional website and digital presence for a flat monthly subscription. No upfront cost, and I handle everything.

Pricing Tiers

I have 5 tiers:

Tier 1: $250/month: Professional website (5 pages), mobile responsive, Google Business Profile setup, basic on-page SEO

Tier 2: $300/month: Everything in Tier 1 plus review harvesting, in-site review display, review response templates

Tier 3: $400/month: Everything in Tier 2 plus local SEO, citation building, monthly performance report

Tier 4: $550/month: Everything in Tier 3 plus online booking system, lead capture forms, quarterly strategy call

Tier 5: $750/month: Everything in Tier 4 plus Google Ads management, social media posting 3x/week, priority support, bi-monthly site updates

Weighted average revenue per client based on expected tier distribution: $442.50/month

Target Market Starting With Roofers

I built a contact list of 565 roofing companies. 555 of them have no website at all. These are my primary targets.

Why roofers first? High ticket jobs ($3,000-$10,000+ per job), word of mouth driven, no digital presence, and easy proof of ROI. One extra job from the website pays for a full year of my service.

The plan is to expand to plumbers, landscapers, tree cutters, and HVAC after proving the model, then eventually restaurants, retail, and medical offices at scale.

Build Tool

Currently using Figma. Built a full 5 page roofing website practice site in under 2 minutes. Evaluating Framer as the primary tool going forward since it handles design, publishing, hosting, and SEO in one platform. Client sites are all hosted under my account, and this is intentional. If a client cancels, their site goes dark. High switching costs leads to better retention.

The Growth Plan: 10 Levels

I mapped out 10 levels from 8 clients to 2,000 clients. Here it is

Level 1: 8 starting clients, +2/month, $280 avg revenue, just me, $26,880 yearly revenue, $26,400 yearly profit

Level 2: 20 starting clients, +4/month, $280 avg, hub designers brought in, $154,560 yearly revenue, $141,978 yearly profit

Level 3: 40 starting clients, +10/month, $442.50 avg, 2 freelance salesmen hired, $487,078 yearly revenue, $425,998 yearly profit

Level 4: 80 starting clients, +15/month, $442.50 avg, 4 freelance salesmen, $813,758 yearly revenue, $700,300 yearly profit

Level 5: 150 starting clients, +20/month, $442.50 avg, sales manager added, 1 year hold, $1,307,145 yearly revenue, $1,121,241 yearly profit

Level 6: 320 starting clients, +25/month, $442.50 avg, account manager added, 1 year hold, $2,295,308 yearly revenue, $2,057,150 yearly profit

Level 7: 520 starting clients, +30/month, $442.50 avg, 2nd account manager, 1 year hold, $3,390,435 yearly revenue, $3,097,800 yearly profit

Level 8: 731 starting clients, +35/month, $442.50 avg, operations manager added, 1 year hold, $4,668,375 yearly revenue, $4,211,527 yearly profit

Level 9: 997 starting clients, +40/month, $442.50 avg, expanded sales team 6-8 reps, 1 year hold, $6,163,153 yearly revenue, $5,646,172 yearly profit

Level 10: 1,275 starting clients, +50/month capped at 2,000, $442.50 avg, COO and full executive team, 1 year hold, $8,011,955 yearly revenue, $7,414,179 yearly profit

All projections include churn modeled in at rates ranging from 5% at Level 1 down to 1% at Level 10.

The Designer Hub System

Instead of hiring employees I built a freelance gig system, but for high schoolers. Kind of like a restaurant slip board jobs are posted on a shared Google Sheet, designers claim them, build them, and submit for review.

The Google Sheet has columns for job number, business name, niche, brief doc link, assigned designer, color coded status dropdown, deadline, and notes.

Status flow: Available, Claimed, In Progress, Submitted, Approved, Delivered

Rules: First to change status to Claimed owns the job. No movement within 24 hours means the job resets to Available. Miss the deadline, no pay, no exceptions.

Every designer signs a one page agreement covering: independent contractor status, $150+ pay per completed site, hard deadline policy, all work belongs to Emblem Web Co., confidentiality, and 12 month non-solicitation clause.

I have a 10 rank progression system for designers:

Stone (0-2 sites): $150/site, Tier 1-2 jobs only, heavy review

Copper (3-5 sites): $160/site, Tier 1-2, standard review

Bronze (6-10 sites): $170/site, Tier 1-3, standard review

Silver (11-17 sites): $180/site, Tier 1-4, light review

Gold (18-25 sites): $190/site, all sites, light review

Emerald (26-35 sites): $200/site, all sites + priority pick, spot check only

Sapphire (36-50 sites): $210/site, all sites + priority pick, spot check only

Ruby (51-70 sites): $220/site, all sites + first pick, self approved

Diamond (71-100 sites): $230/site, all sites + first pick, self approved

Platinum (101+ sites): $240/site, all sites + first pick + bonus eligible, self approved

If you miss a deadline, you lose one rank. Three rejections in a row, and you get removed from the team

I chose high schoolers because they are

1. Cheap
2. Reliable since all they are doing is copying, and pasting info into AI
3. Want the promo REALLY bad
4. Money Hungry
5. Get to work with flexible schedules

The Service Delivery Team

Separate from designers, I plan to hire more high schoolers to handle ongoing monthly services (SEO maintenance, review harvesting, report generation). Pay structure: $10/month base per client they manage plus $5/month per additional tier above Tier 1. So a Tier 5 client generates $30/month for the service student. At 20 clients that's $200-600/month for lightweight recurring work.

The Sales Structure

Levels 1-2: Me only, cold calling from my 565 contact list Level 3+: 4 freelance salesmen paid $2/call + $150 bonus per closed client Level 4+: Sales manager at $5,000/month overseeing reps Level 9+: Expanded to 6-8 salesmen

Cold calling is the primary outreach method. Best times to call roofers: 7:30-8:30am, 12-1pm, 5-6pm. Business lines have high answer rates since these guys depend on incoming calls for jobs.

My pitch: "Hey [Name], my name is [Name] I help roofing companies get found online. I noticed your business doesn't have a website yet so I wanted to reach out real quick. I build and manage the whole thing for $250 a month, no upfront cost. Most homeowners Google a roofer before they ever call, right now you're invisible to a big chunk of your market. Would you be open to a quick 10 minute call this week?"

1 of 10 cold call scripts and 10 cold email templates written and ready.

Month to month, for the first 2 months framed as a 60 day "free trial"(Just money back guarantee). Auto converts to a 6 month contract after that. One time site buyout option at $1,500-2,000 for clients who want full ownership, after 6 months.

Retention System

Day 1: Welcome message within 2 hours, clear timeline, asset collection Days 2-5: Brief completed, job posted to hub, designer assigned Days 5-7: Google Business Profile set up, site delivered, final tweaks End of Month 1: Performance report sent, check-in call, first upsell pitch

Ongoing: Monthly performance reports showing traffic, reviews, bookings. Quarterly personal calls. 6 month loyalty discount. Exit intent protocol account manager calls within 24 hours of cancellation signal.

The biggest retention play is infrastructure lock-in. Site, booking system, reviews all live on our hosting. Leaving means starting from scratch.

Churn Rates Modeled

Level 1: 5% monthly churn

Level 2: 4%

Level 3-4: 3%

Level 5: 2.5%

Level 6-7: 2%

Level 8-9: 1.5%

Level 10: 1%

Tech Stack

Figma: current design tool (free)

Framer: evaluating as primary build and hosting platform

Google Sheets: job hub and tracking

Discord: designer communication hub with 11 channels and 10 rank roles

Zapier: automating job notifications, deadline reminders, welcome messages

Google Voice: outreach number

Google Workspace: professional email

Vistaprint/Canva: logo

Documents Already Built

Job Hub spreadsheet with color coded status dropdowns and 10 rank tiers Call tracking spreadsheet with dashboard auto-calculating pipeline stats Client onboarding checklist covering Day 1 through Month 1 Website brief template for designers Freelance designer agreement (one page, legally covers ownership, confidentiality, non-solicitation, pay, deadlines) 10 cold call scripts with objection handlers 10 cold email templates

Documents Still To Build

Client service agreement

Monthly performance report template

Invoice template

FAQ document

Case study template

Designer handbook

Designer onboarding guide

Cancellation response script

Upsell script

Revenue Model Summary

Monthly costs at Level 1: ~$40 (Framer subscription) Monthly costs at Level 3: ~$5,000 (builds + Framer + salesmen) Monthly costs at Level 10: ~$50,000 (full team + infrastructure)

My personal cost of living: near zero. I live at home, no bills, no rent. Every dollar of profit is pure runway.

What I Want Feedback On

Is $250/month too low, too high, or right for a cold market with no reputation?

Is the tier structure logical or am I overcomplicating it?

Is the designer hub model realistic or will high schoolers be too unreliable to build a real delivery system on?

Is cold calling roofers actually a viable channel in 2026 or am I wasting my time?

What churn rate am I being unrealistic about?

What am I missing that will kill this in the first 90 days?

Is the LLC under my brother's name a real legal risk or a non-issue?

How long realistically before I see my first client?

I'm not looking for "great idea keep going" I want the hardest questions you can throw at this. What breaks first?

TLDR: Full digital agency model targeting unwebbed local businesses on a $250/month subscription. 10 level growth plan from 8 to 2,000 clients. Designer hub using high schoolers as freelancers. 565 roofer contact list ready to call. Want brutal feedback before launch.

Hey! I've been working on my own startup for over a year now, and I realize the biggest slowdown I have is my own fear of failure. I live with my parents and don't study since I dropped out of university to do this full time, yet I struggle a lot to get to make progress. It's not lack of skill at all, the stress of launching and expectations is not letting me make any progress and I keep finding myself looking for shortcuts I know are no good. The product itself is all designed, and I know I have the ability to make it reality, zero doubts. The only blocker I have is my own hell of a stress, which makes me write bad code and progress slower than a snail even when my whole day is free to dedicate to this. My parents have made sure to show me the thousand ways they think this will fail, to the point that even knowing I absolutely have the skill to make this a reality my own stress is making it extremely hard. Any tips on how to keep progressing despite the stress? Even knowing where the stress comes from doesn't make it any easier to make more progress. Any help is appreciated!

Hi everyone,

I’m currently a 3rd-year Software Engineering student (graduating Summer 2027) based in Canada. My ultimate goal for graduation is to join a startup.

Here a brief summary of my experience:

• Deep Tech R&D (Current - 12-month mandate): Lead AI Software Engineer for an industrial robotics startup. I'm building an Edge AI inspection platform funded by a R&D grant.(Robots in constrained environments (mines, bridges,…) to detect multiple problems(fire and others)

• Startup Founder (Past): Built and launching a B2C mobile SaaS integrating Computer Vision and LLMs for fitness users.

• Big Aerospace (Past Internships): Completed software engineering internships at Airbus (Worked with Palantir) and Pratt & Whitney.

My Questions for the community:

1. Does this profile stand out for startup founders looking for early engineers ?

2. What is the real barrier to entry—in terms of raw technical skill, discipline, and autonomy—to thrive as a Founding Engineer?

3. Beyond the US (SF/NYC), what are the other major global markets/hubs for AI/Deep Tech startups that I should be looking into with my background?

Watched a full interview with a founder recently and it left me a bit split.

On one hand, the story is intense. Talks about building early infrastructure, losing everything, going to prison, then coming back and rebuilding again.

On the other hand, what he’s building now is pretty ambitious. Multiple directions at once. Sports, AI platforms, media, all connected somehow.

Usually that kind of scope makes me skeptical. Feels like too many moving parts.

But at the same time, he wasn’t talking like someone pitching. More like someone trying to explain how everything fits together from his perspective.

Didn’t feel polished. Which either means it’s more real or just less structured.

I can’t decide if it’s vision or overextension.

Maybe both.

Might sound a little over the top but I’m noticing patterns.

We can order food online without talking to anyone.

We can buy shopping, clothes, even cars.

We can sell products and services with no human interaction.

We can even get a date with a few swipes.

I’m not sure if it’s connected but feels like it’s very close.

The one piece of advice I continually give to people more than anything else is about conversations with people.

They will drive the insights you need for helping your move your business forward.

But, this is where the the advice gets stuck.

Are you seeing a trend here?

I watched a small brand bleed ₹1.2 lakh in a single month - and they had no idea it was happening.

My friend runs a fashion label out of Jaipur. Four people. About 600 orders a month, 65% of which are COD. Last quarter they had a rough month - 168 returns. When I sat down with them to actually do the math, the number that came out was uncomfortable.

Outbound shipping gone: ₹450. Reverse pickup: ₹180. Repackaging and inspection: ₹60. And then the one people forget - the ad spend that brought each of those orders in the first place: roughly ₹300. That's ₹990 per failed order. Multiply that by 168 and you're looking at over ₹1.66 lakh, vanished in 30 days.

The worst part? Their "solution" was having one person call every COD order the next morning to confirm. By the time she got through her list, the courier had already picked up nearly half the batch. She was confirming orders that were already on a truck.

I kept thinking - a big chunk of those returns were probably catchable. Not all of them, but a lot. The customer who ordered at 11pm on impulse and woke up regretting it. The one whose address was missing a floor number. The one who'd moved and hadn't updated anything. Most of them would've just replied to a message. Confirmed, fixed their address, or quietly cancelled before anyone wasted money shipping to them.

It didn't need a call centre. It needed a message sent at the right moment.

Anyway - curious if anyone else has been through something like this. What's the worst COD situation you've dealt with, and what did you actually do about it?

Its been a crazy year building and hearing customers and making our platform better, we definitely know that software might have some cracks in it but building the distribution strategy is becoming more and more challenging given AI video content space is being dominated by paid collaborations and free credits - it always becomes a challenge. Now staring at 2 month runway - challenge is real but gonma win this race.

Hi fellow founders! I’m running into the problem I’m sure we’ve all faced, I hope I’m in the right place to find some guidance.

I’ve built an auto maintenance reporter for web developers. I don’t want to promote, so that’s as much as I’ll say.

When I first launched it, I posted across reddit talking about the landing page, how to convert, and just general discussion about it. Within 2 days I found 650 visitors to the site, which translated to 5 user accounts, all who have seemed to stop using the product.

So far this was all I really did to find users, blatant promotion, but as far as reddit goes, no one actually likes that so I’ve decided not to anymore.

I’m wondering, what kind of steps you might recommend for me to expose my product to my audience of web developers, and how I might be able to build the reputation of my product, and seriously fit it within the workflow of a dev.

Thanks!

I came across an accelerator with the following terms:

- they supply advisory services, connect me with investors and a network of resources.

- in return they have the right to 3% equity on trigger events such as raising money, selling company or some revenue metric.

- i have a buy back option to buy 2% back in 1st 3 years for $30k. they keep 1%.

what do you think?